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[nickspoon]

Im getting 12 second boots now, so wtf is everyone still crying about to get a 9 second boot? geez, it aint even worth the extra work in my book 

Well the improvements are not just boot time, the new uboot is not self-bricking among many other improvements.

Oh, so no one's mentioned that. There is a possibility that my gp2x can just randomly brick??

It's happened before, so yes. It's possible. However it's very very very unlikely, so don't worry about it.

[primeris]

Ok,
I have a flash-impaired system. As in, it won't flash ever at boot.
I depend on Robsters flash loading utilities to upgrade my firmware.
Anyway, I can't do step five of the cramfs instalation: "flash as normal".

And NO! My problem is not with my slew of SD cards. Robsters flash tester always gives me a nand write error 16 or something.

Help!

[sand_man]

You got a dodgy NAND?

[nickspoon]

He's got a bad NAND, theoddbot mentioned it.

[pcklee123]

I hope the development version comes out soon. I am in a dilemma now. Cramfs with fast boot or network with Qtopia telnet & samba but slow boot. Which should I use?

[BBTroll]

Build your own kernel with cramfs and network support.

[pcklee123]

Build your own kernel with cramfs and network support.

I was hoping someone cleverer than myself would do it first and share with us.

[aapje89]

Hmm...I had to use robsters firmware flasher to get to 1.4 because the "normal" way didnt work, but I still cant flash the "gp2xkernel.img", and yes I did run the .gpu first.

Is it possible to replace the 1.4 firmware that comes with the flasher with the cramfs firmware or would that brick my gp2x?

Edit: WOOOOOOOOT!!!, the damn thing flased
I did just the same routine as i had did hundred times before, but I used the cramfs firmware with the poison skin, and suddenly it flashed .

firmware I used:
http://archive.gp2x....0,0,0,0,42,1291

Edited by aapje89, 12 March 2006 - 04:19 PM.

[triton]

nifty! im gonna give that a shot! mine would flash to the new firmware but it never got past the green screen so i flashed back to 1.2.1 meb this will work. i have a toshiba card

[mooseknuckle2000]

I just took the plunge....and this is AWESOME! Thanks theoddbot, this makes adding things and checking them much easier. Rock on

[awyeah]

I updated mine yesterday, its a huge improvement...very gw theoddbot.

[guilleml]

How the new firmware is going?

is it going to be ready soon?
I am stick with 0.0.2 because 0.0.3 neither 0.0.4 works with my sd